I’m reading a bit into it, but I love this link Sam sent me because it’s as if someone has managed to create an art form that taps into one of my main anxieties about modern life. Speaking into a cellphone, listening to music on an iPod, playing a videogame, building a website — all activities that to someone outside of our current technological framework would consider irrelevant and mystifying. Jon without Garfield (technology, in my metaphor) lives a life of isolation and purposelessness. He speaks to himself and generally acts insane…
Quoted from the site:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.
